Kerstin Michaelsen

A lifelong New Yorker, Kerstin Michaelsen has lived and worked in a wide variety of neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. Listening carefully to her clients’ needs and drawing on her comprehensive knowledge of New York’s neighborhoods and buildings, Kerstin is dedicated to finding her clients a residence they love coming home to. And her unrestrained enthusiasm for New York City allows her to create effective and creative property marketing strategies for her seller clients.

A lifelong New Yorker, Kerstin Michaelsen has lived and worked in a wide variety of neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. Listening carefully to her clients’ needs and drawing on her comprehensive knowledge of New York’s neighborhoods and buildings, Kerstin is dedicated to finding her clients a residence they love coming home to. And her unrestrained enthusiasm for New York City allows her to create effective and creative property marketing strategies for her seller clients.

Prior to joining Brown Harris Stevens, Kerstin owned and managed Michaelsen Design, a graphic design firm specializing in magazine and print design. Over her 20-year career, Kerstin’s clients included some of the country’s leading consumer magazines, corporations, not-for-profit organizations and book publishers.

Today, Kerstin brings the same strong visual sense and attention to detail to her work on behalf of her clients at Brown Harris Stevens. She has bought and sold numerous apartments herself in New York and knows first-hand the issues that buyers and sellers must face in this market. Her experience and detailed knowledge of the process allows her to provide valuable counsel to her clients on both sides of the transaction.

Kerstin received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and is a certified yoga instructor. Fluent in German, Kerstin has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. She currently lives in Greenwich Village and Water Mill with her husband and long-haired miniature dachshund.

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